Reel



.Nov. 13 1923.

J. A. BROGAN REEL Original Filed April 27,

Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

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J'fiMES A. BROGAN, OF LAWRENCE, IrIASSAGI-IUSETTS, ASSIG-HOR TO UNITED$31033 MA- CHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW] JERSEY, A CORPORATIONOF NEW JERSEY.

REEL.

Original application filed April 27, 1918, Serial No. 231,205.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I,JAMEs A. BnooAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain Improvements in Reels, of whichthe followingdescription, in connection with the accom panying drawings, is aspecification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating likeparts in the several figures.

This invention relates to winding and reeling apparatus and isillustrated as embodied in a reel which is adapted for use in windingstrips of welting or other stock in hanks or skeins. In so far as thereis common subject-matter the present application is a division of myprior application Serial No. 231,205, filed April 27, 1918, upon whichUnited States Letters Patent No. 1,e12,837 was granted April 18, 1922.

Strips of welting, such as are wound into hanks by machines of the typeillustrated in my said prior application, are relatively short ascompared to the lengths of yarn, thread, etc, which are handled byordinary winding and reeling machines, and it is accordingly much moreimportant that a welt-winding machine 'be arranged to require as littletime as possible in removing one hank of welting and starting theoperation of the machine in forming the next hank.

An ob ect of this invention, accordingly, is

to facilitate the removal of finished hanks of welting or other stock,and the arrangement of succceeding strips for the operation of such amachine, as is hereinafter set forth.

One feature of the invention is to be found in the use of reel-armswhich may be moved from a winding to a releasing position, and which aresimultaneously operative to decrease the effective diameter of the reel,thereby facilitating removal of a completed hank. As illustrated, eacharm is eccentrically mounted to turn on a support, with a projecting endwhich extends outwardly to receive the strip of welting when the largeside of the eccentric is turned outward to give a maximum effectivereeling diameter, and which extends inward out of the way when the armis turned to decrease the effective reeling diameter to facilitateremoval of the completed hank of welting.

Another feature of the invention com- Divided and this application filedAugust Serial No. 493,321.

prises a clamp for the end of a succeeding strip, which is actuated bymoving the reel arm back to winding position. In the present embodimentof the invention an abutment is provided to co-operate with the base ofthe reel arm as it is turned about on the support.

These and other features of the invention, including specificconstructions and c0mbinations of parts, will be apparent from thefollowing description of an illustrative embodiment of my inventionshown in the accompanying drawings, in whichl is in part a cross-sectionand in part a side elevation of so much of my improved winding machineas shows the novel reel;

Fig. 2 is a view of one of the reel arms generally similar toa portionof Fig. 1, but showing the manner of operating the arm;

- and throat 10 for a strip W of welting or other stock, and a reel 12mounted ona shaft 1d for rotation alternately in opposite directions tocoo aerate with throat 10 to wind up the strip in successive figure 8convolutions.

The novel reel, indicated generally at 12, and which forms thesubject-matter of the present application, consists of a support 14,carrying two L-shaped reel-arms 16, each having a cylindrical windingshank and said shanks being eccentrically mounted to turn about sleeves18 formed on the support- 14. Stem 20 on the arms 16 project downwardlythrough sleeves 18 and carry nuts 22 engaged by springs 24: to maintainthe arms in position. Lugs 26 on the reel-arms seat in notches in thetops of sleeves 18 to prevent undesired turning of the arms. When an arm16 is lifted against the resistance of spring 24: until its lug 26clears the corresponding notclp the arm may be turned freely aboutsleeve 18 from the winding position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 to thereleasing position shown in dotted lines, or vice versa. It ispreferable, but not necessary to the success of the invention, that botharms of the reel be mounted for turning, as illustrated.

In order to clamp the end of a strip which ment of arm .16.

According to the modification shown in Fig. 3, the abutment 30 ismounted for adiustm n by ascrew-an lot nt g 3. and the co-operatingfaces of the abutment and the base of arm 16 are beveled so that thestrip W may, if desired, beclamped or released by vertical as well asrotary move:

While I have described my invention with relation to a machine forwinding strips of ri ing 01' other s ock, it is in various as: pectscapable of more general use, and-it is not the ntention to limit itsscope thereby, or otherwise than by the terms of the ap: pended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States is:

I. A winding machine comprising, in combination, a rotary support havinga plurality of arms extending-parallel to its rotational axis, one ofsaid arms being eccentrically swivelled upon the support, andconnections between the swivelled arm and the support constructed andarranged to permit the turning of said arm upon the supportfrom awinding. position into a releasing position in which the arm isdisplaced transversely with relation to the support.

2. A winding machine comprising, in combination, a rotary support, anarm having a shank portion and a laterally extended end, and connectionsbetween the arm and support comprising a longitudinal extension of saidshank eccentrically swivelled in said supportso that said shank will belocated nearer therotational axis of the support when said end is turnedinwardly than when said end is turned outwardly,

A winding device comprising, in com-- matwn, supp a s un up the support,arm eccentrically swiveled upon the stud and having a laterally extended end, and means for yieldingly retaining the arm with the endextending out wardly in winding position.

a. A windingdevice comprising, in combination, a support, an armswiveled eccentr cally thereon, a clamping member secured to the supportin operative relation to the base of the arm, and means tor. yieldinglyretaining the arm 1n position to clamp a strip of stockbet-ween the baseof the arm and the clamping member and adapted to permit rotation of"thearm to'move the base out of operative member. V

A r a c mpri in in. combin tion, a

support, winding arms upon the support,

and .a clamp member on the support, the arms being mounted on thesupport in such relation to the" clamping.

a manner that they may be move-d to i crease I the efiectirc diameter ofthereel and simultaneously to coop rate with sa d member t clamp the ofa st p of to k hich is to be Wound on the .reelj r 6. A r el omp ising,in combinat on, support, and n embersearried by saidsup: port to cla p eend of a str p it-s ock and hold the strip wound thereon, Said memwilljam the end of a strip of stoekbetween the abutment and the arm,

8. A reel compris ng, in comblnation, a

support, a plurality of reel-arms eccenel y sw lsd the eon $9 th the esrd amet r o h r e may be i eased r d m ish d by urning the a ms, and e sr @lemri g e ga ns -t m 1g9 V V 9. A reel comprising, n co i ation, a

ppo t, a d an Lrs ap d ree arm p et lly,

mounted thereon so that the horn portion f th m y be turned evtva d'tereeling -strip f steak r nward. t r remo ng he ip a t r re ing; vthe'n wal mou ting he"'L-s ne1 m being w t ic h pe t t e thereo setha turningthe arm inward dec es the ef ctiv i meter oi the reel to facilitateremoval pt a strip reeled thereon.

In testimony whereof I have'signed my 7 name to this specification.

JAMES Br om

